Thursday, March 30, 2006

Muckster -- Internet Safety

Becky asked me to share some tips for internet safety to help avoid identity theft.

This is a public website. Anybody can access it and learn quite a bit about any of us. So please make it harder for them:

- No phone numbers.- No addresses.- No names of schools, hospitals, places of employment, etc.- Not too many details about what you bought or where.- I’d stay away from specific information, like ages or middle names.- And, in general, just keep in mind that anybody can be eavesdropping on our conversations.

Don’t be paranoid, just be aware and play safe. This is especially true for the grandkids’ blog – it’d be a good idea to check on it once in a while and to remind them to use regular old email if they need to share a phone number, address, email address, or any other identifying information.

About Me

We hail from a home on the range/
Where our kids and their parents still play/
where seldom is heard a bigger scrabble score/
than the numbers mother and isä get each day./
Oh give us a website to share our daily goings-on/
from AZ & MN to wherever alphabet soup’ers go/
there’s never a dull post with kids all around/
and grandparents can get updates without all the sound.